Bob Seger Tags A Dozen New Stops Onto ‘Farewell Tour’

The end of the road just got a little bit longer, with Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band tagging on a dozen new stops onto its farewell tour. As it stands now, the trek will wrap over two nights — with a pair of hometown shows on June 6th and 8th at Clarkston, Michigan’s DTE Energy Music Theatre. The added dates will hit Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, New York, and New Jersey.

Over the decades, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band have gained the reputation as one of the purest, most high-octane rock shows on the road. Seger told us that he was lucky to not only have the will, but also the opportunity to constantly hone his craft by playing out: “We were very fortunate. Some people were really nice to us; the band Kiss, the band BTO — Bachman-Turner-Overdrive, Aerosmith, some other people took us on tours and let us play our 30 minutes in front of ’em. I remember in ’74 we played 265 nights of the year on these various tours — and playing our own concerts in bars and stuff like that. We were playin’ all the time.”

With a career as long as Bob Seger has enjoyed, he surprisingly has very few regrets — but there is one. Seger, who included the George Jackson – Thomas Jones tune “Old Time Rock And Roll” on his blockbuster Stranger In Town album, told us how his name came to be left off the song’s credits: “It was a rush thing, we were goin’ to Europe, (my manager) Punch (Andrews) says, ‘Well, you rewrote some of the lyrics, you gotta take some credit!’ I said, ‘Ah, they haven’t got a pot to piss in, let ’em keep the money, y’know? And I’m doin’ fine, y’know. . .’ (Laughs) But, oh man, was that a bad mistake! Y’know, not because of the money — (but) because we coulda controlled where it went. Y’know, we coulda had some say about those stupid commercials they put it in.”

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